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In the most cashless society on the planet, even God now accepts digital payments.
A
growing number of Swedish parishes have started taking donations via
mobile apps. Uppsala’s 13th-century cathedral also accepts credit cards.
The
churches’ drive to keep up with the times is the latest sign of
Sweden’s rapid shift to a world without notes and coins. Most of the
country’s bank branches have stopped handling cash; some shops and museums now only accept plastic; and even Stockholm’s homeless
have started accepting cards as payment for their magazine. Go to a
flea market, and the seller is more likely to ask to be paid via
Sweden’s popular Swish app than with cash.

“Fifteen years ago I would withdraw my entire salary and put
it in my wallet, so I knew how much I had left, but these days I never
really carry cash,” said Lasse Svard, the acting vicar at the parish of
Jarna-Vardinge, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Stockholm.

Vanishing Act

Swedes’
aversion to cash is increasingly showing up in money supply data.
According to Statistics Sweden, notes and coins in public circulation
dropped to an average of 56.8 billion kronor ($6.4 billion) in the first
quarter of this year. That was the lowest level since 1990 and more
than 40 percent below its 2007 peak with the pace of the decline
accelerating to its fastest ever in 2016.

According
to the central bank, which is also studying whether to launch its own
digital currency, the main reason for the disappearing act is technical
innovation.
Riksbank Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley notes that
Swedes were early adopters of both personal computers and mobile phones
(remember those Ericsson phones?),
and that the country’s banks were quick to create sector-wide
structures such as debit cards, credit cards and Swish, which has 5.5
million users and is owned by the country’s largest banks. Swedes also
seem to trust those systems, she said in a recent interview in
Stockholm.

Innovation Drive

"A drive for innovation has
been created in Sweden to come up with cost-effective and user-friendly
alternatives to cash,” Skingsley said. Cash is likely to “more or less
disappear” as a means of payment in the private sector, she said.

But a cashless society is not without its challenges or critics.
Many
pensioners are struggling to make payments in an online world, while
privacy campaigners lament the fact that the state is acquiring greater
control over what its citizens do. There are also concerns about the
vulnerability of a cashless society in the event of an attack or major
blackouts.
It seems that for now, the benefits -- including lower
business costs, more control over tax revenue and greater safety from
criminals -- outweigh the drawbacks.

Policy Impact

In
fact, Swedes have become so averse to cash that they’ve even been
shunning it during the current regime of negative interest rates.
“The
fact that people chose to hold so little cash in their wallets despite
getting zero interest on their bank accounts emphasizes the strength of
this trend even more,” Robert Bergqvist, chief economist at SEB AB, said
by phone.
So far, the development has had little impact on
monetary policy. But if cash were to disappear entirely, it would give
extra powers to the central bank.
“Negative interest rates would
be more powerful as there wouldn’t be any way to escape their impact,”
Bergqvist said. “In a sense it would give the Riksbank more room for
maneuver.”

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With very few Swedes carrying cash, the
Jarna-Vardinge and Uppsala parishes are now reaping the benefits of
being tech-savvy. Not only do mobile app and card payments lower the
risk of money being stolen, it’s also cheaper to rely on Swish since
there’s a cost involved in depositing large amounts of cash at the bank.
In Jarna-Vardinge, the use of Swish has also led to an increase in the
amount of money raised, since many of the congregation’s 7,500 members
are no longer limiting themselves to any spare coins found in their
pockets.
It has also led churchgoers to engage in some new behaviors.
“One
thing that’s quite funny is that when you collect these days, there are
some who will raise their mobile phone in the air to show that they are
giving,” said Mats Lagergren, a spokesman for the Swedish Church’s
Uppsala parish.

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"I am worried by the Blessed Virgin's messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soul. … I hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past."A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, 'Where have they taken Him?'"

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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Saint Athanasius

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."